Pocket Beagles must not exceed 10 inches in height, although ordinary Beagles in miniature.
In order to breed Pocket Beagles it is advisable to select as small a sire and dam as possible, because there seems to be a natural tendency for these Hounds to become over, rather than under, sized.
A few sportsmen have made use of Dachshunds for driving rabbits out of cover, but they have no particular qualification in this respect, and are decidedly inferior to the Beagle, or a pack of Beagles for this purpose.
The scenting powers of these dogs are said to be exceptional, and many prefer them to Beagles for rabbiting, their deep, clear musical notes telling one exactly of their whereabouts.
It is, indeed, a very pretty sight to see a pack of beagles working in cover.
In a word, rabbit-shooting with beagles is one of the most amusing, but at the same time one of the most dangerous, sports going.
Sir Roger, being at present too old for Fox-hunting, to keep himself in Action, has disposed of his Beaglesand got a Pack of Stop-Hounds.
Illustration: Beagles] As the train pulled up at a station somewhere along the line a man entered the baggage car with a brace of beagles on a leash.
This contest is usually held at the end of the show, or perhaps before the packs of hounds and beagles are judged, and it is always an exciting time.
The baggage man came along, and by the time the owner of the beagles had arranged for their shipment the train was ready to start again.
The two beagles kept aloof, and pretended to be winding some game round the top of the hill.
The beagles then approached him so near, that he was under the necessity of taking the road for Llandu; and leaving those covers on the left, he returned much fatigued, near to the place where he was first started.
Sir ROGER, being at present too old for fox-hunting, to keep himself in action, has disposed of his beagles and got a pack of Stop- hounds.
White's Selborne, Letter VI, 'One solitary grey hen was sprung by some beagles in beating for a hare.
The sportsman with his spaniels wandered by the hedge, the huntsman with his beagles chased the hare across the sodden meadows, and the report of a gun or the note of a horn echoed among the surrounding hills.
Beagles are rarely more than ten or twelve inches in height, and were generally so nearly of the same size and power of speed, that it was commonly said they might be covered with a sheet.
The form of the head inbeagles has been much misunderstood.
The use of beagles was soon afterwards nearly abandoned by the introduction of the harrier, and by his yielding in his turn to the fox-hound; but the beagles of Colonel Thornton and Colonel Molyneux will not be soon forgotten.
Basket-beagles, beagles that chased a hare slipped from a basket.
Aunt Sonora never got into hysterics because Mrs. Beagles had not called on her for three weeks.
Aunt Sonora would say, that "Mrs. Beagles might stay to hum as long as she was a min-ter.
Packs of beagles and hounds and pairs of greyhounds were brought "out" by enthusiasts, and cross-country courses with rare jumps were carefully mapped out.
And away trooped the lads under the surveillance of the venerable Spiegelmann, who had a couple of brace of leashed beagles pulling and straining and whining to get free into the brushwood.
And the littlebeagles were disconsolate, for their quarry had fled.
Chapter LII Wallace Carpenter's search expedition had proved a failure, as Thorpe had foreseen, but at the end of the week, when the water began to recede, the little beagles ran upon a mass of flesh and bones.
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth a race of beagles had been bred so small, that a pack of them could be carried out to the field in a pair of panniers.
Every Sunday during the hunting season the sides of our mountains and valleys resounded with the yells of packs of half-starved beagles kept by middlemen.
With the disappearance of the latter class, the beaglesalso followed, save a few exceptions.
The sound was exactly like the questing of a dozen beagles on the foot of a race, but not so loud, and highly suggestive of ideas of the supernatural.
Selwyn, headmaster of Uppingham, wrote to me if he were made headmaster of Eton, he would abolish the Beagles “at the earliest opportunity.
The cabalgadores felt themselves like beagles who mill around and bark in vain braggadocio.
Pursued relentlessly by two beagles of the Guardia Civil, he saw himself, in one fancy, seeking sanctuary in a monastery.
The beagles started a fox on one occasion, and ran it for nearly two hours.
It is astonishing how keen naval men are on following beagles when they get the chance.
The hot and muddy followers of the beagles are not forgotten, a very acceptable warm bath being provided for them when they return on board.
Foot Beagles may be numerous but I know only of the Brighton pack.
The dogs employed are the smallest beagles that can be obtained.
He shoots rabbits in them to a team of beagles trained not to notice hare.
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